From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] removing a file begins with minus sign
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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:51:03 -0500
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in addition to using rm ./-jisho, there is another way.

all programs that parse arguments with ARGBEGIN/ARGEND
(or with unix getopt for what that's worth) stop
looking for arguments after seeing --.  thus you
can say

	rm -- -jisho

(or, as another example, grep -n -- '->pdb' *.[ch])